THE SONGS WE KNOW BEST

The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery?the winner of nearly every major America n literary award?reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most or iginal and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters.Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childh ood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of As hbery du...[Read more]